101 Really useful websites: What would you choose?
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In the summer of last year, we chose the 101 best websites to help you run your life - the sites that help you be first in line for gig tickets, for free parking or for earning cash when you shop. Some of the sites we suggested were perhaps ill-advised bursts of enthusiasm while others were great ideas that just never took off - both classic symptoms of the online economy. Some, however, we actually got right and would recommend them all over again.
But, to be honest, much has changed and the list is a long way from definitive - and quite a journey from being useful. So we need your help this time round to create this year's guide to the 101 most websites that can help you run your life. So make your suggestions in the comments box and help us compile a new list that will last for ... well, months perhaps. The only criteria is that the site be useful - that it helps you run your life. That might be helping you choose your utilities, store your photos, share your music, contact your friends - but it isn't the sites that you waste your time on (and certainly not THOSE sites).
So chip in and let us know your best sites, and we'll create a new list of 101 Really Useful Websites very soon.
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can be used to get really hand how to tutorials on how to tweak your Windows XP, Vista and soon to be Windows 7. Also will soon be including how to tutorials on tweaking your Ubuntu operating system.
Not much can be found here, but you can request a how-to, and the author will write one up for you.
UK Public Transport Information - Plan travel by bus, train, coach, ferry or underground. Free, very useful & usually accurate.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It's quick & efficient. Run it regularly and you'll get less spam emails. 240 million downloads so far.
Lost Football Stadiums - What's there Now? Aerial views of the former locations of old football stadiums
Fly (in Google Earth) to any of the former stadium locations. Almost 20 clubs have relocated from their traditional homes to brand-new stadia in the last twenty years and this figure is constantly rising.
You can convert from any existing unit to another. Including currency!
Why buy a cd ever again? Free, legally streamed music which you choose from just about any artiste except the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and a few others.
http://www.tape.tv
Free music videos. Only available in Germany at June 2009, but apparemtly coming to the UK soon.
Also check out Parkopedia.com to find parking anywhere in the UK.
http://www.e1buytoletmortgages.co.uk/bu
Its got a forum where you can discuss any questions with financial advisors, they always answer my questions! And they constantly update with news and mortgage rates which is quite popular too. Its a different type of useful, don't you think?
Mia
This website literally lists everything going on in London. This makes it invaluable for locals who are looking for something new, and for tourists/ visitors (like me) who are trying to find their way around and what's on offer.
With the Olympics coming up (and all the arts and culture events related to it going on) I can see this site becoming even more popular. I'd love it if they expanded throughout the UK - fingers crossed!
Its billed as "the people who find people" - this website is a website that helps you find anyone in the UK. Its not an automated service - you get a dedicated people finder to help you track down the person you are trying to find. its also useful for land registry searches, house prices and all kinds of information.
This site lists all of the places you can get free digital photo prints, it is regularly updated, you never need to pay for a digital photo again!